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Virtual musical instruments: Accessing the sound synthesis universe as a performer

Mulder, 1994

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1320470541669401075
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Mulder A
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Proceedings of the First Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music

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With current state-of-the-art human movement tracking techology it is possible to represent in real-time most of the degrees of freedom of a (part of the) human body. This allows for the design of a virtual musical instrument (VMI), analogous to a physical musical instrument, as …
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